Thursday, October 25, 2007

The Art Bell Generation?

I'm certainly part of it:

WASHINGTON - It was bad enough when the TV and lights inexplicably flicked on at night, Misty Conrad says.


When her daughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicole and neighbours said children had been murdered in the house, it was time to move.


Put Conrad, a homemaker is firmly in the camp of the 34 per cent of Americans who say they believe in ghosts in a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos. That is the same proportion who believe in unidentified flying objects - exceeding the 19 per cent who accept the existence of spells or witchcraft.


Forty-eight per cent believe in extrasensory perception, or ESP.


To put the roughly one-third who believe in ghosts and UFOs in perspective, it is about the same as, in recent AP-Ipsos polls, the 36 per cent who said they are baseball fans; the 37 per cent who said the United States made the right decision to invade Iraq and the 31 per cent who approve of the job President George W.Bush is doing.

...yet a whole lot more than those 11 percent who believe that Congress is doing a good job.


But I digress.

Back to the subject at hand, I have had experiences with both (UFOs and ghosts); so yeah--go ahead and count me in with the kooks :-)